2018 Open Access Week

By Rie Namba on October 10, 2018 in Events, UBCV, Updates

Open Access Week is an is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in as well as guests from local and global community. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, and symposia on topical and timely issues. All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools. This year’s UBC Open AccessWeek Events include:

Open But Not Free: Invisible Labour in Open Scholarship

  • Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 5-8 p.m.
  • Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Rm 7000
  • Register online
  • Reception with light refreshments served: 5-6 p.m.
  • Panel discussion and questions: 6-8 p.m.
The open scholarship movement has gained momentum by aiming to fundamentally transform how knowledge is created and shared. In practice, though, the rise of open scholarship has resulted in new challenges for practitioners and stakeholders working within a system in transition. Please join this panel event on the topic of invisible labour in open scholarship.

Creating and Managing Your Academic Profile

  • Date & Time: Monday, October 22, 10-11:30 a.m.
  • Location: K217
  • Register online
Thinking about publishing your research? There are more ways to communicate your scholarly ideas than ever before. Learn about skills and tools for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally publishing your research. In this workshop you will: develop a scholarly/publication profile using both traditional and social tools, build knowledge of formal and informal modes of publication, identify ways to broadly participate in your field (e.g. webinars, blogs, open education resources).

Put a License On It!

  • Date & Time: Tuesday, October 23, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
  • Location: Koerner 216
  • Register online
  • Light snacks and beverages will be available.
We are UBC Librarians and we put licenses on things. So many things don’t have Creative commons Licenses, but what are we gonna do? We are gonna put licenses on things. Have a presentation, paper, a guide, or an image you own? Make it openly available! Put a license on it! Join us for a Creative Commons license sprint. Bring items that you haven’t had time to post in cIRcle or add an open license to and we will work to make it open.

Tri-Agency Open Access Policy: Requirements and Routes to Compliance

  • Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 12-1 p.m.
  • Location: K216
  • Register online
Canada’s Tri-Agencies require all publications funded by NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR to be made openly accessible within 12 months of publication. Learn how to make your works comply with Open Access policies, including publication and self-archiving strategies.

Pixelating – Digital Humanities Mixer: “So I’ve done some stuff in Text-Encoding Initiative (TEI)…now what?”

  • Date & Time: Thursday, October 25, 12-2 p.m.
  • Location: Koerner Rm 153
  • Register online
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an open-source, community based, multilingual standard for digital textual scholarship that gives scholars a vocabulary and a method to create richly expressive and critically informed versions of their texts. Join us for this hands-on workshop that offers an opportunity to get a deeper understanding of this technology. Bring a laptop and a lunch to this session!

UBC Canvas Open API Hackathon

  • Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, October 27-28
  • Location: DL005, Sauder Learning Labs
  • Register online
Did you know that Canvas includes an API for accessing and modifying your learning data in your own programs and scripts?  Have you ever wondered if you could build a Canvas app that improves your own learning? Please join us for a UBC Learning Analytics Hackathon on October 27-28 that will seek to explore ways the Canvas API can be used to benefit students. Participants will work towards proposing, designing, and building applications and dashboards that could be used to improve student learning and experiences.

Can I Use This? Finding and Working with Open Educational Resources (OER)

  • Date & Time: Tuesday, October 30,
  • Location: IKBLC, CTLT Rm 2.22
  • Register online
If you are preparing resources for your teaching, chances are you’ll want to incorporate materials from different sources. This session will focus on the pragmatic elements of reuse and the basics of working with open educational resources (OER) that are licensed to allow revision and reuse. This session is intended to address common questions concerning openly licensed materials for teaching and learning.

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